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Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform /
Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2.1 million in 2001. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke, With Children, S...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2.1 million in 2001. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke, With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare mothers, describing the challenges that welfare recipients face in managing their work, their families, and the rules and regulations of welfare reform. Welfare reform, experienced on the g |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 290 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198030461 0198030460 1280833394 9781280833397 9786610833399 6610833397 1429461837 9781429461832 0199839506 9780199839506 |